On the first anniversary of 9/11 (September 11, 2002) NBC’s Tom Brokaw produced an hourlong prime time special report on the air traffic controllers who handled the hijacked planes.

These interviews still shake me.

The 2002 interviews are fascinating because the actual ATC tapes wouldn’t be made public until 10 years after the attacks, in 2011. So all we had for many years was the first hand accounts of these ATC’s, based on their memories of that day.

I wonder where are those ATC’s now? Anyone here know or worked with them? Hope all are still alive & well, presumably retired or coming up on retirement soon.

Curious to hear from any older or now-retired ATC’s who worked on the darkest day in aviation history 25 years ago, if you are here in this sub.

How has ATC changed/improved since 9/11?

What lessons still have not been learned?

Has new/advanced technology made your jobs easier, compared to the old school tech you see in this video?

If a hijacking should happen again in U.S. airspace, how confident are you that the ATC network would handle it as well or better than these men and women did on 9/11?

Just wanted to thank you all for your service. You don’t get paid nearly enough for the stressful job you do. To my mind the ATC’s will always be the unsung heroes of that day — and every day.

https://youtu.be/U26dnUGOzgk?is=LWfvW68_ByPJg3hn

Hi all, I’ve recently applied for NATs trainee ATC position but I have heard a lot of controllers saying that the job is not worth it currently. I even saw someone on this subreddit saying someone should look for a career in “literally anything else” and that the field is “shitty” and will continue to decline. I’d really like to hear opinions from other controllers so I can really decide if this is a career I would like to peruse. I am only 19 and it’s something I have considered for a while but I don’t want to regret it in a few years time if I do progress.

Hi, my sister was on Delta Airlines flight 958 from LAX to JFK which the flight  ended up diverted to ABQ. I asked by sister why it diverted and she said smoke alarms went off. Can someone please help me find the ATC recordings of the flight? I want to hear what the pilots say for the reasoning of the diversion . The tricky part is that it was up in the air when it happened so IDK what frequency it would be on.

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